Joseph Stalin

To begin with, it is important to examine the Soviet – Canadian relations period. According to Petryshyn , 1974, during 1920 – 1930, Canada conducted a partially independent foreign policy in the context of the British Empire. Canadian political parties kept aside the involvement into European relations that could make Canada bear the number of international liabilities. In the meantime, being an emerging country, Canada needed trade partners, including the USSR. Gorodetsky (1994) claimed that…

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, born on February 8, 1834, was believed to be the youngest of 14 children. His father, Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleyev was a teacher at a local gymnasium. Around the time Dmitri was born, his father went blind and later died in 1847. Consequently to support the family, his mother Mariya Dmitriyevna Kornileva began working at a small glass factory in a nearby town, and eventually started managing it. On December of 1848, the factory burned down, and the family moved to St.…

The Cold War took place from the end of World War II, in 1945, to 1991, when the Soviet Union fell. It was a prolonged period of tension. The Cold War was not fought like any other war; it was fought through competitions such as the Space Race, Proxy Wars, and Sporting Events. The war was over the spread of communism, the idea the people in a country should share all the wealth and property. The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism throughout the world, but the United States wanted to keep…

During the 1920s, the word “propaganda” did not have the passive connotation that it has today, especially in the Soviet Union. Most of the Bolsheviks’ leaders and even Soviet artists had a positive view of propaganda and considered themselves as propagandists (Russell 2009, 58). After they succeeded in their revolution, the Bolsheviks looked forward to build what they called the new social Soviet society; they wanted to enlighten the Soviet people and to create a new socialist human being.…

increasing success, with several victories in a row. In 1941, the reason the Soviets were struggling against the Germans was due to their lack of leadership, and preparedness. Leading up to this war, Stalin was told many times that the Germans were preparing for an attack against the Soviets. Stalin was dead set on the fact the Germans would not attack due to the fact that they had been at war with Britain and would not want to be at war on both fronts.…

CRITICAL THINKING (MAX 550 WORDS) In the article “Who Lost Russia (this time)?” by Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul, the authors want to argue the reasons why Russia turned out to be the country which we know today as powerful and autocratic. The authors go back to what happened to Russia in the 1990s. The decline of the economic growth brought the Russians to point their fingers at the West and more specifically at the United States for their acting. During those years people raised two…

During the year of 1989, there was a press conference discussing the new travel regulations issued by the government to show an easier way to travel from the West Berlin through the Berlin Wall. Schabowski had received a copy of the regulations and hadn’t read them carefully. One reported asked when East German citizens could begin to take advantage of these new travel rules and a response from Schabowski stated ‘from now.’ In the evening, Reuters incorrectly reported that East German citizens…

The end of WWII should have heralded in a new age of relatively stable peace. The Axis powers had been defeated and Nazi Germany was no more. Instead, the U.S. and the USSR plunged the world into the Cold War. Unlike any previous war, it was one of the longest confrontations in U.S. history. It spanned five decades and across continents, involving millions in the battle between capitalism and communism. There isn’t a simple answer as to how the Cold War came to be. However, there is a trail of…

During an enduring, everlasting war of 1900s, the United States’ primary desire and ambition was to spread its democratic influence and its goal of containment. While the nation sought to prevent the spread of the communist ideology in Europe, the United States also accepted challenges elsewhere. The Soviets and its communist values attempted to spread throughout Asia; led the United States to take apart of this war to combat and counteract communist influence. Although the spread of communism…

The book I chose was “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” a fictional story about a man in a Stalinist labor camp in Siberia in 1951. This story shows what it was like to be in a labor camp in during Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union. The story begins with the main character, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov (usually called just Shukhov) in the morning. It is explained that Shukhov usually wakes up early so he would have time to do little jobs like sewing, sweeping and others before work parade…